The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1905, Page 12

on dake TN ey ie dA ren hed by the Probe Publishing Goinpudy, Nv. Wd Lo W tare Row, New Tork Qt the Post -Oftice ay New York ay Sccond-Claua Mai Matter Snob epnee eeeee weeneees REASONABLY SAFE” NOT ENOUGH. ir. Darlington says that the Casino Theatre was ‘reasonably save,” added that “if Saturday's fire had burst upon a matinee audience all id easily have escaped.” Chief Croker, who is a better authority in such matters, said that if had occurred when’ the house was filled ‘‘the loss of life would shocking.” There is support for this opinion in the fact that Started, contrary to the general rule and expectation, at the front he house, where the main stairway exits and fire-escapes were situated, ‘person who has attended a performance in this handsome and uni;ue trap breathed a “Thank God!” on learning that the theatre was when the fire occurred, It is reassuring to learn from thé authorities that as the result of ‘ordered made after the Iroquois disaster “one can go into any theatre”’ and “find exits on all sides with doors opening outward, room walls sheeted with metal, fireproof curtains and unobe . Vigilance is never relaxed.” itis not enough that the theatres are “reasonably safe,” as Dr. Dar putsit. They should be at least as safe as the law requires them Chief Croker is reported as saying that “some of our theatres are and that “there are ten that need attention at once,” ese ten should be named and receive “ATTENTION AT ONCE.” cty theatres in the city, New York can stand the closing of ten that inate. With the horrible holocaust in Chicago fresh in mind, and g example of the Casino “tinder-box” before us, it will be Neglect to permit the continuance of any more “fire traps.” LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, quick and healthy sympathies of children for their poorer ac- might often be studied with profit by their elders. little girl attending one of the city public schools was kept home days last wéek so that her mother could wash her only. decent fer schoolmates discovered the truth when she asked one of them ‘Street if the’ truant officer had been looking for her. ‘The next of the girls had made up enough money out of their savings to Schoolmate a pretty, warm: dress, -dress and ragged stockings and-leaking shoes, She was cry- old, One of the same four youngsters who had bought a dress ‘ther schoolmate proposed to her friends that they ask their Tet them have some of their own’ left-over garments to give the next moming they had got together a fairly comfortable was the simplest kind of a volunteer charity organization doing / work without’ premeditation or.plan,. and. not a member was Small girl of ten:came to school one: bitter day clad only in| toe i No’ TR American ‘The acareity of men during the ith Wy Re Increased the habit, and co:n 9 accommiudats themselves of mau's wen ioe cusily to the ibe jSoctety.” British paterfamillas {wake up some day to tind that he Is NO longer head of tie house, \ ee Mar ix showing his gtatitude to up in kennels for the public to Byuaro Garden,. eee On the ground floor which it should fall to take advantage ol. eee automobile?” “Oh, 1, dunno, ington Star. ° * appears to be progressing es well gould be expected, . given to fire, Dan' new, a game” of football nev: as “sporty” as the Al ele A theatre which ts made t be stared at.” ecription ft? eo ee Hdtth—Papa won't refuse you. He's generous to a fault. Detrott Free Preas, old. What ‘better soil is‘there in which to cultivate the fic spirit than the warm heart ‘of ‘a:chitd?—or what better t $0 : COWARDS IN THE GUISE OF MEN. ) recent disturbing incidents of east-side “L.” road travel have had feature in common: the rank cowardice of many miale Hon is a first law of niture, But itis to be obeyed with a ) be preserved forgets, the other larly the (Onell eas sal orty. Clubs have justified themselves, . Do we need for sup- more the Don't-Be-a-Coward' Club; with membership limited 1 meena nnnenentnes | ulth officers mean ¢o'stop the selling of the baby-killing bad will arrest and prosecute some of the big dealers who are the be/of supply to the retailers. ‘The Trust, gets rid’of its stale and pls, azic the “little fellows’” are fined for selling'it, The p should strike “higher up.” a é tt iS noted ‘that the price of beef has-not been changed since (of the Supreme Court against the Trust on Jan, 30. . Prob: f Barons are waiting to see if President Roosevelt dare ‘in jall for defying the law and shapping thelr fingers at " ty, formerly known as Old Probability, is rather. “rub. i old-fashioned winter. People’s Corner. from Evening World Readers Habit, Of ‘The Bvening World: habit of grinding my teeth ‘and I. cannot get out of should be done to re- care, ts one of the myateries of man- &gement not uncommon in the admin- | o {stration of rapid transit affairs, An @ppeal- to gallantry recommends Iteole ! Aa 8 porsible remedy. A man who we thie? M. 8. G. | would not think of smoking in a lady's Pale to rervous or Cigestive ix-| presence without her permisston b general “building up” of | would eurely make haste to throw ‘Aigestion will check it. away his emouidering stub If she should at suggest through the conductor that its ‘Werld Almanac. « odor was displeasing to her, Soh sa LOUIBE, find answers to the fol- ba The Cigar Problem. He has talon to bulla), ny maiter of The Evening World: e EYork fubwey? How much It Mid it? And full particulars re- Gubway? Miss J, Ww. ss Owmere’ Grievance, Realive of The Evening World: Ghiet Croker te quoted as paying party owmers in front of wnose Wea fire hydrant shoud In regard to M, W.'s problem, “If you | should get $100 to buy 100 cigars, some | of them costing $10 each, some $1 each and some 60 cents each, how many | olgars of each kind would you buy to make up 100 cigars, the amount of money not being more nor leas than! $1002" the answer Is as follows: Buy 1| ctwar at $10, 81 clears at $1 and 18 cigars | the snow ten feet on either | at 0 cents, the total amount being 19 a fo ay middle of the street to | cigars for $100, cts ihaiesarlentes for the fire ongines, why JOHNNY Ww. | According to Li eld, an Bngils Tthey be compelied to pay $1.10 YW. | periodienl, “there are few vhings more jistoh time M snows for the| One #1 alse or Two at 50 Centar | (maging loa girl's soctal popularity In the others? Where te the | ro the Kdltor of The Evening World | WERE 198 CISL TE ESOL OF Belg, What s the Street-Cleaning| I would lke to ask readers who are! here for? on walary a question relating to a prop- osition that 1 am up against, Readers? PROPERTY OWNER. tghted Cigar. had two positions open to you, the Mi The Bvening World: one starting with # a week, ein @hould be prohibited) raise of 60 cents every six months, or n Infilotion: the second, starting with 4 a week, ir be with a:raise of $1 a year, which one would benefit you the, more? . ‘to ‘give us "Cassy at the Bat tralns collided In the Bronx the otfier day’brutes in trous.| "%! '¢"*t #iven. betor ly. erns cannot learn, for Holy Sunday, Question in national politics the worst may be looked ‘for, e The alr of inde; the Indifference displayed where ordinary small politess | be due to the fact that he is holder it you were going to sari to work, and) KNOWS her better tha {sts to California camp tn tr by drifts.” Any Long Inland passengers op the train must have felt at home, oe “Bip, Slop, Hippity Hop, Flop.’— ‘Tribune headline, ‘‘Bleet, silp, Blop and Blow Up."—Gun headline, In Of the headliner truly great the Saxon speech meets all requirements, ee . A New York baseball glee olv According to “Chew, chew and keep on chewing,” saya Dr. Darlington, an {dea abroad that Now Yorkers were! not greatly in need of this admonition. ale 8 “How did you like ‘Parsifalf"” ' “Not much, The orchestra made such a racket tuning up all the time that I couldn't hear what wae said’ on the stage,” —Cleveland Unless the Sovlety for the Preserva- tion of Historic Landmarks intervenes to prevent, Canfield's will be razed to make way for a restaurant, Is there to be no tablet commemorating the bi of the Forty-fourth street bronze door? British: traveller ‘who has published some ‘Notes on the Primitive Pagans of Africa” says that in the bush coun- try the wealth and importance of vil- lages depends on the size of the heap of empty «in bottle: the market place, Any: doubts which may have been felt aa to whether cly- ‘ization has really been carried into Africa are hereby dispeiled, eee and rum juge Banto Domingo {s sald to be Soanish With the Sunday Editor denounces lunchroom betting “a plain gamble.” Seems really to be the Wall street game reduced to first principles, in ticker quotations as oe Critle says {t's all woman's fault that man {8 growing !mpolite, “The lack of courtesy which characterizes the mod- ern male js largely due to the encour- agement he has received from women, ndence assumed and by women Is con- | cerned has gradually had a withering ffect upon man," * 6 « “I've decided to patronize your store. Everybody saya you keep such pure drugs and all that." “Yea, madame, What can I do for you madame?" “ire me a feo-cent stamp, please.’ Philadelphia Lress, lever, lever gitl as from the plague,” ‘The average man files from M the Amer! man doesn’t run, e 8 6 “Snow imprisons tourists, i fnynsion of i lamcon Graphic says: he giving of lureheons for wo. |mMen by women has reached our 8.10: caused us to adopt the pract! The dog, says Maeteriinck,, Is) man's jonly friend in tre anima) kiuedom. } canine chim this week hy ‘ooping him and poke ot and provoha at Ma:lison Casino has an opportunity to get in “Don't you wish you all had an 4 mule docen' cost near @o0 much money an’ d's purty near as dangerous.”—-Wash- Cuban wins international auto race {1 Hevane, Americanization of the island In Dante's Hell as much epace was nd snow as to everlasting Headmasters of the great English schools testify that “the schoolboy of to-day {ts less rough in manner and language than hia predecessor of fifty yeare ago, and less cruel.’ The Rugby considered reasonably eafe” in tho Heaith Commissioner's meaning will require an audience which Js rea- fonably cool-headed In time of danger. eee Woman who had to go down to Wall atreet writes to complain that she "was etered at ‘by obd and young.” Wendell Holmes mild that ‘a pretty framed by @ preity bonnet was Does the de- Oliver Tom—Yea} but I'm no fault.— “Beek: change of vast import in Equi- table Life.” Case of Hyde and seek? ee 8 "Delay; Long Ieland traMfic.” An eoo- nomical composing-room foreman keeps the phrase stereotyped. hands eis les {his law fs ted + Dr. Dariington, New Ii ‘Sense! panic ru iw is . joreot ‘ork ls going the Pompeiian pace. Pop- hing Moreover, uber impression that the old Roman wait Is regarded in the Tenderloin as & Jog-trot. ‘There’ has been a e rd wil his Pt not iad a whether. or not Equa) Suffrage League. What flerc leagues‘ for that purpos conceivable that if all important conventl woman displays, with tmpunity, strive so earnestly to obtain, befall her, Berlousiy, however, Goldzler is mistaken, clous—not half so ferdclous as From the point of view of common sense, however, it would seem a pity Voluntarily to destroy a thing that we ‘The mar- rylng man grows rarer every day, and any woman who pays or does anything to discourage him Js an enemy to her sex and ‘deserves! any evil that may I feel that Mrs. We are not fero- VEN though avery. wo- man does jot murder her hus- mand, she often cela like {t, Marital onde weigh heavily jon @ woman, All awe welgh heavily a joldsier in a discus. sion last week of women should be hanged for muner by the New York practical creatures we roust be! But if we are really #o law- lens, why should we seek to make laws and band ourselves into equal suffrage Tt is not laws weigh avily on us we could be of any Sreat assistance in framing new ones or administering those already made, The statement as to our lawleasness 's disproved by the narrow, but doubt- less walutary, clinging to even the least that the average But do we all often 1 like murdering our husbands, pro- led, of course, we have them? Per- sonally [am not qualified to answer the question, but I can't see why, if we do, we should be given the privilege of modifying the already lax lawe so that we'may indulge the homicidal tendency we arriage and Murder. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. . . should be—and we rarely consider murt- der except in the abstract. Many of us, to be sure, have pon- dered the problem Charles Lamb sub- mitted to his readers—i, e; “It by Pressing a button you oould kill a Mandarin in China and by so doing be- come helr to @ large fortune, wh: would you do?’ And some of us, alan! have in our mercenary imaginations sadly depleted the mandarin nopula- tion, But we are, generally speaking, quite harmless and altogether foreign to ithe bloodthiraty emotions for which our latest champion gives us credit. Marital bonds do not welgh heavily upon women, As a rule, the heavier they are the better they like them, And the brutal ruffian ts not half so apt to be murdered bv his wife as the harmless weakling, There are more potential Mrs, Rogerses than Mra, Ed- wardses. —_— Hackneyed Phrase. “A stirring situation,” a ay ny Peddler—Try jome arnica salve, burns, coms and |bunioms, d. Johnny on the Spot. HUH! SOME OF THAT 1 KickUMS POPS Work £o Does Kickums’s Pop, and What Folicws is Almost Toco Funny to Teil, 17's AN “) Rooms? himeelf—Just dressed fit to ki}).’ exoltoment off their assailants, game, about six Inches in. length. on ach of them A “WEARING” ORDEAL, out your patience? Mrs. Nagg and Mr. ++ «By Roy L. McCardell..., H, Mr. Nags, a dreadful you will be glad to hear it, because you have no pity in your make-up, but @ dreadful contre- temps oocurred at the Jolly Pallbear- Roy L. McCardell ers’ last night. You remember me tell- Ing yo ‘other Willle inviting Mr. LadyAnger 4nd his friend Clarehce Mar- mosett to the Jolly Pallbearers’ Club- “Well, they accepted the Invitation, and arrived in correct evening attire, looking—and Brother Willie told me #0) “They had not been at ‘the Jolly Pall- bearers’ ten minutes, and were talking about painting on china, when suddenly 4 lot of thugs broke Into the place and declared that Mr, Ladyfinger and Clar- ence Marmosett were a couple of ruf- flanly cotillon leaders who had come down there to assault any timid 'long- shoremen they might find, and then they shouted, ‘Slap them on the wrist!’ and sprang forward to assault them, “Brother Willle and his friends, Robble the Toad and Sneegie the Fish, came gallantly to the rescue of poor Mr, Lady- finger and Clarence Marmosett, who were awoontng from terror, But In their when they were merely trying to beat In the excitement it was found that one of the Intruders “Brother Willie and his friends grow fo excited that they became hysterical, A Game for To-Night, HE Flight of Hearts makes an | expecially pretty Valentine's Day | Clip from pink Ussue paper hearta Have an] many of these as there ere girls In the | jparty and write the name of one girl Mabel—And has the young man been coming to see you long enough to wear Gladys—Patience? Why, he has been coming to see me long énough to wear out thive sofas—Syracuse Telegram. TRIFLED WITH! NP eAR wa A Se Higher Up. By Martin Green, ne, POOP LEM YH o® SHE," sald the Cigar ani” Man, “that Assemblyman Wagner hes introduced a: bill to pit the kiboeh on the’ tirvet eneculators,” i; oe i “Have you heard of any masge ine ;|Meoting of managers to boost the ..- biN along?" asked the Man Higher | Up. . “You'd think from the bile ¢ > | Stuck up In front of the theatresgiving inotics to patrons that tickets pure A | chaced from speculators will be ree! «: fused gt the door that there was @/ i" vendetta between the speculators and! the eldewalk bandits, It 1s the kind of a vendetta that exists between @ . booze fighter and the saloon business, . “There are a few managers who would put the strangle hold on the’ spoculator evil if they could, but thelr” associates in the theatrical business regard them as more or less off thelr. dip. The managers’ bit out of the extra price the speculators draw down’ ” ds velvet, full length and as wide as . a 28-shcet stand. Young Mr, Wagner. lives in Yorkville, and has the active support of that Napoleon of the show » | business, Bim the Button Man, but he is due to discover that the average manager of a Broadway success looks upon the speculator as a whole Jot more than a side Issue, ; “The. speculators are putting up @ roar that a bill to prohibit charging more than the advertised rate for tickets {s unconstitutional, At the same time the United States Governe ment is framing up a law to prohitlt a railroad from charging more than the advertised rate for carrying freight. Why should the shipper of pork or grain or beer get any better deal under the constitution than the man who has to pay $2.50 for a §3 seat to a 69-cent show? “If theatre ticket speculators are protected by the conetitution what's the matter with protection for specue lators in beefsteaks? Why can't @ butcher advertise a run on porters: house ot 19 cents a pound, sell out his stock to men on the eldewalk, i force his enstomers to pay them am advance and cut up the eurplus?” “The speculators have a right to make a living,” protested the Cigas Store Man. “That's no'sign they ought to have | 4 licenge to carry sandbags,” sald the | Man Higher Up. Little Willie’s . Guide to New York: HARLEM, harlim begins just one blok noarth of the home of the uptown man who Ie asked if he lve In harlim, harlim has @ poppulation of sevrel hundred thowe- end but yood hardly beleey it If you tride to get'a census by asking evvery uptown man Do you Ilv in harlim? tn the dais when collumbus disskovered harlim and lade out collumbus avnoo harlim , was‘ moagtly popputated by squatters and gotes but If you go thate | now you will find rents are as high and | pollitics as low as thay are downtown, }in the dais of collumbus harlim was spelt Haarlem and when you compalr | the cllly spelling of thoase dats with moddern spelling sutch as | use you will |see how harlim has improayed since * and finally fetl into a couple of chairs, with the tears rolling down thelr checks, while the thugs made good their escape. “I shall never forget how they looked | covered with soot and mburger cheese! when Brother Wilife brought them to! Mrs, Ladyfnger's, Brother Willie hinted that you might have had some hand in the outrage, und that your business ip to Philadelphia was oll a subter- ‘uge to throw us off the scent, “Examine your conscience, Mr, Nagg, You know you never liked elther Mr, Ladyfinger or Clarence Marmosett, Brother Willle cannot speak about it, ds taken with nervous shakings and hysteria when he does so, and Robbie the Toad and Sneezie the Fish deciare that they will never be satisfied until }Mr, Ladyfinger and his friend come down to the Joly PallbA wvors’ again, “If you have had anything to do with this affair nelther Me, Ladyfinger nor | ve Mars osett will ever meak to you alii | thonse barbarric times, once thare was |a brooklen man who livd a verry bad “Ha.” Than “Fla,,") life and wien he dide the reccording aingel sa’d to him you must exsplate your sing on erth by going bak to brooklen and evry nite you must go to harlim and take a girl who Hys thare to the theayter in longalker square and then taik her home again and get bak to brooklen in time to dres for bisness next moarning and the man sald Thanks but 1 gueas If Its all the salm to you f-will stay down here for this klimate lzzent so verry difrent frum nu | yoark In summer any way, | A, P, TERHUNB, Not “ Ta,” to protect thelr guests ‘ Brother Willle and his friends struck | nia se NT Mr. Ladyfinger and Mr, Marmosett Sullking Steam, | According to an engineer, though there ‘may be every reason present why @ | steam bolter exould steam, there are ove had struck both the visitors with a i sasions when It simply will not. It ree paper bag full of soot and that one of Fee anal aiiue «(Sut OSV COGKS the thugs had also rubbed limburger | uy 1. ; thatoan' be dn such occasiona cheese In thelr hair, that enn be det We every one takes a hand at the fires, but tho reeult 1s the same—no steam or only so ke thre | A shabby old fellow from Fla, = | Suld: “Would that this cilmate wag tat 3 ors are both | What with zero and bilzzara thu ) “good dayy" I'm froge to the glazant and “bad days" In the performance of Did you ever see anything ha?” each eS) ss ate all pean seen Ca The ‘‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial In thes3 times of crowded | Stand on Your days, crowded hours and crowd- ay Nendo tries In rendiness, lshts | Own Feet. @ cd trolley cars a WORD TO THE Che hostess takes up na poRtG at (Co t, 1905, Planet Pub.Co.) WISE wells uD in our mind, he end of the roo est from her Py not, 1005) Franes PubiGo: ST fii ont ih eit of hath Or umeromene ,9';)'NP ON YOUR OWN bellows wafts the little hearts In thelr "FEET! Se a Bee hiy saree How many of you go home to Brooklyn and Harlem in the (oveneh hey foeting lista Linn is|tush hours standing on SOME OTHER PERSON'S FEET i wat done with the hands, but by holding | Your feet were made for your PERSONAL USE. The OTHER TeShe mans AU Santa ae lWea: ‘Yo-/Man has a right to the SAME exclusiveness! a Pe Ime oreeiatior ep ae The rights of others should ALWAYS be sacred, WHEN Jirmt captured algo recelves « git. tie THEY DO NOT INTERFERE WITH YOUR OWN. [ise eR COE Ay | We know it PAYS Mr. Belmont, Mr, Ryan and Mr, Winter to Hi, ‘ |have you stand on other folks’ feet, but THIS does not make the aa eae cre |hablt DESIRABLE! : | It not only destroys PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE, bv! It HURTS the other man's CORNS! We are taught KINDNESS, It Is NOT kind to step on ¢ man’s corns. A CORN ts TOO PRECIOUS a possession to po